I feel like those kinds of communities on sites like these only really work if they are targeted and niche communities to sell/buy specific types of items. Like the mechanical keyboards subreddit that allows users to to buy and sell second hand keyboards.
Because of this I feel “The Bazaar” is much more suited to a new instance specific to being an online marketplace via lemmy. That way you would get communities like mechboards@bazaar and books@bazaar etc.
I don’t think a single free for all style community to buy and sell anything will work very well at all.
I agree with you. A different instance with sales communities is a much better option.
I agree with you. An instance for 2nd hand sales, with communities to categorize. Then one community for feedback so buyers/sellers can build reputation.
I used r / hardwareswap and r / homelabsales and would participate in wherever those end up in he fediverse. Of course feedback was split between the two subs so a central feedback area would be an upgrade.
Doesn’t harm to try.
I can see a huge draw for something like this. One of my core use cases for Reddit (and CheapAssGamers among other sites) was tracking video game and related sales. My default sub was a meta-reddit of just sales sites (e.g. r/SwitchDeals, r/gamebundles, r/gamedeals, etc…). Not sure if this lines up with OP’s question (which may be more market / marketplace focused) but there is a value in communities like this, from my humble perspective.
So I rather like the idea of using lemmy to launch products. The sales of linked items to subsidize the costs to maintain the servers could be collected like a tax… Up to and including paying moderators of the server. This would have implications though. Both positive and negative.
